Machine for moistening and severing strips of gummed paper.



No. 820,512. v PATBNTED MAY 15, 19

L. W. MEBRIAM. MAGHINE FOR MOISTENING AND SEVERING STRIPS OPIGVUMMED PAPER.

APPLIUATION FILED D3018, 1905 wiivwm'es: p j7we7'zto f 941 454 Ki k? 33 g? @FFIQE.

TJYMAN W. MERRIAM, OF FITOHBURG, MASSACHUSETTS.

MACHINE FGR MOISTENlNG AND SEVERING STRlPS F GUMMED PAPER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 15, 1906..

Application filed December 18, 1905. Serial No. 292,284.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LYMAN 'W. hlERRIAM, a' citizenof the United States, residing at Fitchburg, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful lmprovenients in Machines to l /loistening and Severing Strips of Guinnied Paper, of which the following is aspeciiication.

This invention relates to that class of ma chines in which there is a moistening device, a severing device, and a strip o'l paper in the form of a roll, said strip of paper provided on one side with adhesive material, said machine so constructed and arranged that the free end of said strip of paper may be drawn across said moistening device and the moistened portion may be cut oil by said severing device. In machines of this now in use the moistening device intervenes between the roll of paper and the severing device, and the arrangement is such that the severing device fails to cut oil all of the moistened portion. As a consequence the moistened portion left on said strip is unpleasantly sticky to handle, and when the adhesive in aterial on said moistoned portion is subsequently rem oistened said adhesive material becomes inellective for the purpose intended.

The object of this invention is, first, to pro- -vide a machine for moistening and severing strips of gunnned paper so constructed and arranged that the severing device shall cut oil a portion of said strip of paper at the dividing-line between the moistened and unmoistened portions, and, second, to provide a machine that shall be very simpleand compact and whose center of gravity sh all below, thus making it dillicult to upset. This result is obtained by placing a roll of paper in a substantially horizontal position with its axis of rotation consequently extending in a substantially vertical direction, the paper after being on wound from the roll being given a quarten turn and subsequently moistened, while the. hints located between the moistening device and the roll of paper is in such a position that when the papc iscut oil the line of cut will come substantially on the line dividing the moistened portion of the paper from that which is not moistened.

The invention consists in a machine comprising in its construction a moistening device, a knife, and a strip of paper in the form of a roll, said strip of paper being provided on.

one side with adhesive material, said knife l wardly by capillary attraction. being located between said roll of paper and l The invention further consists in a device.

of the character set forth of a roll of paperarranged with its axis of rotation in asub stantielly vertical plane, means for imparting a quarter-turn to a strip of paper after it has been unwound from said roll, a inoistening device, a severing device, and means for guiding said strip.

The invention finally consists in the combination and arrangement of parts set forth in the following specification and particularly pointed out in the claims thereof.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan. view of my improved machine for rnois toning and severing strips of gunnned paper. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same viewed from the right of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section on line 3 3 of Fig. 1. lar to Fig. 3 of a modified form of my iinproved machine for moist-suing and severing strips of gummed paper.

In the drawings, ]S a base having a post 6 extending vertically ther. om. A reel 7,, pivoted on the post 6, is adapted to carry a roll of paper 8. covering the roll of paper 8, is held down against the base 5 by a thumb-nut 10, having screw-threaded engagement with the post 6. The casing 9 is prevented from rotating. on the post 6 by pins ll, fast to said base. he casing 9 is provided with an orifice 12, one

edge 13 of said orifice forming an angle or sists of aframe '22, around which extends an 10 5 endless belt .23, preferably formed of textile 'mater1al. The moistenlng device 21 1s partly submerged in water contained by the waterreceptaclc 16, the endless belt 28 of said moistoning device acting to draw said water upno The strip of paper 134 as it is unwound from the roll 8 Fig. 4 is a section simi A casing 9, surrounding and passes around the roll 14 and outwardly through the orifice 12, the edge 13 of said orifice imparting a quarter-turn to said strip of paper and directing said strip upwardly, said strip passing through the slot 19.

A guide-bar 25, fast to the casing 9 and preferably parallel to the edge 13 of the orifice 12, is adapted to hold a portion of the strip of paper 24, which intervenes between said edge and the slot 19, in a substantially vertical plane, this resulting in the free end 26 of said strip of paper being held normally out of contact with the endless belt 23. The

: thumb-nut may be screwed against the casing 9 with more or less pressure, thus springing the top of said casing downwardly against the reel 7 and increasing friction on said reel.

The operation is as follows: The operator stri of paper 24' With the upper portion 27 of t e' belt 23 is equal in distance from the slot 19 to the distance of the edge 20 of the knife 18 from said slot. As aconsequence the dividing-line between the moistened and unmoistened portions of the strip of paper 24 will be swung on the arc a as the free end 26 is swung toward the right, thereby causing said dividing-line to exactly coincide 'with the edge 20 of the knife 18. Then the operator imparts'to the free end 26 a quickmovment toward the right and downwardly, portion from the str p of paper 24. The moistened portion may then be utilized for any desired purpose, such as the sticking of the Wrapper of a package.

In the modified form of my invention (shown in Fig. 4) the moistening device 21, Figs. 1 and 3, thus severing the moistened consisting of a roll 28, pivoted at 29 to the water-receptacle 16, is substituted for the moistening device 21 ofthe preferred form, hereinbefore described.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire by Letters Patent to se cure, is

1. A device of the character described, adapted to hold a roll-of paper, a moistening device, means to guide a strip of paper fron said roll toward said moistening device, and a cutter adapted to sever a portion of said paper from said strip betweenv said roll and said moistening device substantially on a line dividing the portion of said paper moistened by said moistening device and the dry portlon of said paper.

2. A device of the character described,

- strip.

adapted to hold a roll of paper arranged with its axis of rotation in a substantially vertical plane, means for imparting a quarter-turn to a strip of said paper after it is unwound from said roll, a receptacle adapted to con- 7 tain fluid, a moistening device adapted to be partly submerged in said fluid, and means for guiding said strip.

3. A device of the character described, adapted. to hold a roll of paper arranged with 7 its axis of rotation in a substantially vertical plane, means for imparting a quarter-turn to a strip-of said paper after it is unwound from said roll, a receptacle adapted to contain fluid, a moistening device adapted to be partly submerged in said fluid, means for guiding said strip, and means for severing the ree end of said strip.

4. In a device of the character described,

means for holding the roll of paper with its axis of rotation in a substantially vertical plane, means for imparting a quarter-turn to a strip of said paper after it is unwound from said roll, a vertical pin around which said strip passr efore reaching sa1d means 9,

for imparting a quarter-turn, a receptacle adapted to contain fluid, a moistening device adapted to be partly submerged in said fluid, and means for guiding said strip.

A machine for moistening and severing 9 strips of gummed paper, adapted to hold a roll of paper arranged with its axis of I'OlJSLr' tion in a substantially vertical plane, means for imparting a quarter-turn to a strip of said paper after is unwound from said roll, I a moistening device, 'a severing device, and: means for uiding said strip toward said moistening evice.

' 6.- A machine for moistening and severing strips of gummed pa er, adapted ,to hold a- I roll of paper arrange with its axis of rotation in a substantially vertical plane, means for imparting a quarter turn to a stri of said paper after it is unwound from sai roll, a moistening device, a severing device, and I means for holding the freeend of saidstrip v normally out of contact with said moistening device.

7. A machine for moistening and severing strips of gumrned paper, adapted to hold I roll of paper arrangedwith its axis of rotation in a substantially vertical plane, means for imparting a quarter-turn to a strip of said paper after it 1s unwound from said roll, a

moistening device, asevering device, a paper-- I guide located adjacent to said moistening device, andmeans for holding in a substantial 'vertical plane a portion of said strip whic intervenes between said paper-guide, and means for imparting a quarter turn to sa1d r 8 A machine for moistening and severing strips of gummed paper, adapted to hold a roll of paper arranged with its axis of rota tion in a substardially vertical plane means r30 for imparting a quarter-turn to a strip of said paper after it is unwound from said roll, a receptacle for water, amoistening'device adapted to bepartly submer ed in said water, a guide through which sai strip may be drawn across said moistening device, and a severing device located adjacent to said guide.

9. A machine for moistening and severing strips ofgummed pa er, adapted to hold a roll of paper arrange with its axis of rotation in a substantially vertical plane, means for imparting a quarter-turn to a strip of said paper after it is unwound from said roll, a receptacle for water, a moistening device adapted to be partly submer ed in said water, a guide through which said strip may be drawn across said moistening device formed integral with said receptacle, and a knife also formed integral with said receptacle.

10. In a machine for moistening and severing strips of gummed paper, a base,'a central post extending vertically therefrom, a

reel pivoted on said post adapted to hold a roll of paper, a casin surrounding said roll provided with an ori orms an angle of substantially forty-five degrees with a plane intersecting said orifice and in which the median axia line of said post lies, a receptacle for water mounted on said casing, a moistening device adapted to be partly submerged in said water, a guide through which said strip may be drawn across said moistening device, and a device for severing the free end of said strip.

11. In a machine for moistening and severing strips of gummed paper, a base, a central post extending vertically therefrom, a reel pivoted on said post adapted to hold a roll of paper, a casing surrounding said roll provided with an orifice, means for imparting a quarter-turn to a strip of said paper after it is unwound from said roll, a receptacle for water mounted on said casing, a moistening device adapted to be partly submer ed in said water, a guide through which sai strip may be drawn across said moistening device, and, a device for severing the free end of said stri 1%. A machine for moistening and severing strips of'gummed pa er, adapted to hold a roll of paper arranged with its axis of rotation in a substantially verticalplane, a vertical pin around which a strip of paper passes after it is unwound from said roll, means for imparting a quarter-turn to said strip after it leaves said pin, a moistening device, a severce one edge of which.

ing device, and means for guiding said strip toward said moistening device.

13. A machine for moistening and severing strips of gummed paper, adapted to hold a roll of paper arran ed with its axis of rotation in a substantia ly vertical plane, a vertical pin around which a strip of said aper passes after it is unwound from sai roll,

means for impartinga quarter-turn to said strip of aper after it leaves said pin, a moistening evice, a severing device, and means for holding the free end of said strip normally out of contact with said moistening device.

14. A machine for moistening and severing strips of gummed paper, adapted to hold. a roll of aper'arranged with its axis of rotation in a substantially vertical lane, means for adjusting the friction on sai parting a quarter-turn to a stri roll, means for imof said paper after it isunwound from sai roll, a moistening device, a severing device, and means for guiding said strip toward said moistening device. v

15. A machine for moistening and severing strips of gummed pa er, adapted to hold a roll of paper arrange with its axis ofrotation in a substantially vertical plane, means for imparting a quarter-turn to a strip of said paper after it is unwound form said roll, a rece tacle for water, an endless belt of fabric a apted to be partly submerged in said water, a removable frame around which said belt extends, a severing device, and means for guiding said strip toward said belt.

16. A machine for inoistening and severing strips of gummed pa er, adapted to hold a roll of paper arrange with its axis of rotation in a substantially vertical plane, means for imparting a quarter-turn to a strip of said paper after it is unwound from said roll, a wa ter-rece tacle provided with a guide-slot in one wal thereof, a knife integral with said wall, and a moistening device ada ted to be partly submerged in said water, t e nearest point of contact of said strip of pa er with said moistenin device being sep a in is tance from sai slot to the distance of has edge of said knife from said slot.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses. v v/ LYMAN W. MERRIAM.

Witnesses:

CHARLES S. G'OODING, ANNIE J. BAILEY. 

